For its second edition, under the patronage of the Académie des beaux-arts, the Conseil économique, social et environmental, and the Mobilier national, Genius Loci is offering the public its first glimpse of an art deco masterpiece conceived by architect Auguste Perret in 1932, on the seventh floor of the building at 51 Rue Raynouard in Paris.

The exhibition-experience Genius Loci, L’Appartement d’Auguste Perret, curated by Marion Vignal, is an opportunity to discover the multiple facets of the builder who wanted to “make architecture sing” – Perret the designer, the decorator, the lover of sculpture, music and poetry, the fancier of owls and angels. His neoclassical approach to the use of reinforced concrete, the purity of his aesthetic with its references to antiquity, as well as his key sources of inspiration are celebrated through works and installations, many created especially for the event, by 34 guest artists in disciplines ranging from sculpture to perfume.

Marion Vignal will present Mouvements Modernes's works from the Néotù period with four seats, a glass sculpture by Nadège Desgenétez and a special commission by the unclassifiable Daniela Busarello.